Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1695 – French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.

* 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.

As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.

* 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.

* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.

* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

As the Neapolitans had called for the French, Alfonso decided to intervene and, with the support of several barons of the kingdom, captured Capua and besieged the important sea fortress of Gaeta.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

A succession of German victories in northeastern France followed, and one French army was besieged at Metz.

* 1812 – Battle of Badajoz ( March 16 – April 6 ) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.

Youlou's palace was besieged on the 15th by angry workers and the French refused to intervene militarily, and he was forced to resign.

Once the rebel forces had besieged Damascus, the French military responded with brutal counter-insurgency techniques that prefigured those that would be used later in Algeria and Indo-China.

The besieged Uruguayans called on resident foreigners for help which led to a French and an Italian legion being formed, the latter led by the exiled Giuseppe Garibaldi.

The besieged Uruguayans called on resident foreigners for help and a French and an Italian legion were formed.

* September – October – Landrecies in Picardy is besieged by forces under Emperor Charles V, but withdraw on the approach of the French army.

The French besieged the castle and forced the surrender of the garrison on 31 July.

Again besieged and captured by the French during the Thirty Years ' War in September 1642, Perpignan was formally ceded by Spain 17 years later in the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and from then on remained a French possession.

Lothair then fled to the French capital of Paris and was there besieged by Otto II and Charles.

Léon Gambetta, the leading figure in the provisional government, organized new French armies in the countryside after escaping from besieged Paris in a balloon.

The next morning, the French Army of the Rhine, rather than resume the battle with an attack of its own against the battle-weary German armies, retreated to Metz where they were besieged and forced to surrender two months later.

With the defeat of Marshal Bazaine's Army of the Rhine at Gravelotte, the French were forced to retire to Metz where they were besieged by over 150, 000 Prussian troops of the First and Second Armies.

One French army was now immobilised and besieged in the city of Metz, and no other forces stood on French ground to prevent a German invasion.

For a short time it became the capital of a self-governing federation of the Heptanesos (" Seven Islands "), under Ottoman suzerainty ; in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit its faction-ridden government was again replaced by a French administration under governor François-Xavier Donzelot, and in 1809 it was besieged in vain by a British fleet, which had taken all the other Ionian islands.

Captured by Nicolas Catinat in 1691, Nice was restored to Savoy in 1696 ; but it was again besieged by the French in 1705, and in the following year its citadel and ramparts were demolished.

In 1746 French forces besieged and occupied Brussels which Louis then entered in triumph.

But the French did not give up easily ; Louis XV besieged the city again in 1746.

Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.

After many retreats, Cornwallis is besieged at Yorktown, Virginia, where he surrenders to the surrounding Continental Army and the long awaited French naval force.

As part of the Crown of Aragon — most historians would say the dominant part Girona was besieged by the French and defended by its inhabitants under the direction of general and military governor Mariano Álvarez de Castro.